Overview

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Course Description

UOW Social Work offers fresh and innovative content, taught by experts in the Social Work field. The intensive professional experience in this degree will allow you to practise your skills with real people, in real- world situations giving you first-hand Social Work experience. This experience ensures you are job-ready when graduating, making you highly attractive to employers.

What you will study

The UOW Bachelor of Social Work provides a balance of skills, concepts and theory, as well as hands-on experience in professional practice. You will cover the following five areas:

Study of the individual and society: with subjects such as Psychology, Introduction to Social Work and electives from a range of humanities, which will provide an introduction to people and social context.
Skills for practice: you will develop skills to work effectively with people, and use critical insights to understand people and social problems.
Enactment of social justice: enacting social justice is a core requirement when working with individuals, families or communities, and for social researchers and policy developers
Engaging with community: engaging with communities on joint projects is an important part of Social Work, and is central in the program.
Supervised professional practice: in the final years of the degree, you will gain supervised professional practice experience in human service agencies. This is where you will develop the skills and knowledge necessary for a career as a social worker.

Careers

Health
Disability
Aged Care
Children and Child Protection
Family Services
Community Development
Housing
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...

Health
Disability
Aged Care
Children and Child Protection
Family Services
Community Development
Housing
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities
Migrant and Refugees Services
Social Planning
Mental Health
Social Policy
Homelessness
Youth Services
Community Based Research
Program Planning and Evaluation
Women (Including Domestic Violence) and Trauma

Additional Information

This course contains a total of 1000 hours over 104 weeks of compulsory work-based placements in the final two years of the course. This course may...

This course contains a total of 1000 hours over 104 weeks of compulsory work-based placements in the final two years of the course. This course may also contain compulsory components to be completed online.

Ratings

We ask: What are the job prospects like? Does the course help set you up with a job in the field?

2.5

Teachers

We ask: Were the teachers engaging? Did they have good industry experience? Did they use real life examples?

4.0

Course work

We ask: Was the material relevant, up to date and appropriate given the state of the industry?

4.0

Time worthy

We ask: Was the course worth the time taken to complete it?

3.5

Money Worthy

We ask: Was the course worth the money paid to complete it?

3.5

Student Reviews

July 2018

Year completed
2020

Positives: I really like how the tutors are laid back. You get to know them and you don't feel like another number. They have a lot of experience in social work. They tutors tell me about their experiences (which makes me learn from their mistakes). It's also very practical and hands on. Majority of my learning is from interv...

Positives: I really like how the tutors are laid back. You get to know them and you don't feel like another number. They have a lot of experience in social work. They tutors tell me about their experiences (which makes me learn from their mistakes). It's also very practical and hands on. Majority of my learning is from interviewing and gaining hands on experience through simulation labs and receiving feedback from my tutors.

Negatives: I don't like how some of my classes are meant to go for an 3 hours and it only runs for 1 hour (as the tutor thinks we covered everything)

My advice to future students is: I would say it's a great campus. However before you study social work make sure you know what your actually studying. There have been a large amount of drop out rates.